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Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1996.  All rights reserved.

OP/SYS:     OpenVMS Alpha

COMPONENT:  TTDRIVER

SOURCE:     Digital Equipment Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  ALPTTDR03_061
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  ALPTTDR02_061
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  347 Blocks

     Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha V6.1, V6.1-1H1, V6.1-1H2
     System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  Yes


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for TTDRIVER.EXE on OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 - V6.1-1H2.
This kit addresses the following problems:

Problems addressed in ALPTTDR03_061:

  o  UCBs that are really being used are  being  deallocated.   This
     causes  devices  to  disappear depending on which port is using
     them.

     This problem is fixed in OpenVMS Alpha V6.2.


Problems addressed in ALPTTDR02_061:

   o  Under the following scenario, TTdriver on a QIO READ may return
      a status of %SYSTEM-F-BADESCAPE:

      An  application,  run  on  FT   device(DECterm),   enables   an
      out-of-band  AST  for  the  ESCape character, while at the same
      time using the IO$M_INCLUDE modifier  to  include  the  ESCcape
      character in the input stream.


RELATED ARTICLES:

Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
the OpenVMS database.  To view these articles, open the appropriate
product database and perform a query using either of the following
search strings: 'ALPTTDR03_061' or 'ALPTTDR'.


ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:

If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool.  If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:

     [AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools


INSTALLATION NOTES:

In order for the corrections in this kit to take effect, the system
must be rebooted.  If the system is a member of a VMScluster, the
entire cluster should be rebooted.
  
  ==========================================================================
  |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
  | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  | SYS$TTDRIVER.EXE           | 879AC072 | X-3             | 14-FEB-1996  |
  |                                       |                 | 18:43:45.54  |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+